Daniel Katz, Ph.D.

It is perfectly understandable that many in our country want public school buildings to be open for in person instruction this year. Among the many hardships of COVID-19 lock downs school closure...

https://danielskatz.net/2020/08/21/school-year-2020-21-we-are-asking-the-wrong-questions/

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has gotten a large boost in public approval both locally and nationally during the pandemic. That should not be a real surprise to observers. Contrasting his calm a...

https://danielskatz.net/2020/05/06/andrew-cuomo-school-skepticism/

Student activists, responding to the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, organized a national walk out to memorialize murdered classmates, to protest gun v...

https://danielskatz.net/2018/03/15/nationalschoolwalkout-grown-ups-need-to-listen/

Betsy Devos has drawn few headlines in recent months, and that is a good thing for the Secretary of Education.  Her tenure began with Vice President Mike Pence having to break a 50-50 deadlock o...

https://danielskatz.net/2018/03/14/the-apotheosis-of-betsy-devos/

On February 14th, 19 year-old Nikolas Cruz entered his former high school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, armed with an AR-15 rifle and proceeded to murder 17 students...

https://danielskatz.net/2018/03/08/what-exactly-am-i-preparing-my-students-for/

New Jersey’s public schools welcomed a new governor last month, after a bruising 8 years of Chris Christie.  It is not necessary to recap all of the previous administration’s battles with th...

https://danielskatz.net/2018/02/09/a-new-start-in-new-jersey/

A great deal of ink has been spilled on how the Republican tax bill working through Congress would impact higher education for the worse.  The highest profile item is the plan in the House bill ...

https://danielskatz.net/2017/11/29/the-republican-tax-bill-is-anti-public-education/

In 1993, I took my Bachelors Degree, my Masters Degree, and my teaching coursework, stepped on to an airplane and left for Honolulu, Hawai’i to begin a one year teaching internship.  I was con...

https://danielskatz.net/2017/10/25/deep-in-the-heart-of-whiteness/

It comes as no surprise that in New York the SUNY Charter School committee voted to approve its controversial regulations that will allow SUNY authorized charter schools to certify their own teac...

https://danielskatz.net/2017/10/14/suny-to-teaching-profession-meh/

New York’s charter school sector, apparently. Politico reports that the charter sector has potentially won a much desired prize: permission to “certify” their own teachers.  The SUNY Chart...

https://danielskatz.net/2017/07/12/whos-afraid-of-professional-teachers/